Working with Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, like Joomla and WordPress. Unlike it's little CMS brethren however, It is used around the world for powerful web applications and for secure political, corporate and personal websites.

A couple of popular websites built using Drupal are BBC Good Food, and MTV UK.

Drupal simplifies development and eliminates the need for writing routine code making it a cheaper option than a pure custom built site.

Like Joomla, Drupal is working hard to create a CMS aimed at simple internationalisation and translation of your website. It also includes a wide variety of modules making it possible to implement almost any user interface or web feature you can think of.

The most recent update is (Drupal 8) available in over 100 languages, and including various Drupal 7 modules as 'Drupal 8 Core'.

That being said, some Drupal 7 modules are maintained better than their Drupal 8 counterparts, so some new sites are still more appropriately built on Drupal 7, but this truly depends on the feature set required by your users. An example of this would be the Algolia search integration (we love Algolia), but the Drupal 8 integration is still not truly secure or well maintained. If your site requires Algolia, it may be that the older and more robust Drupal 7 is still the best choice for you.

Here at 3B digital, we are experts in hosting, development, design, theming and more. Should you need assistance in planning and/or building a Drupal build for your business, do let us know.

Our Drupal work

This single page interface we recently deployed on the RSM Global site has proved extremely popular and successful. We were delighted to see it being demonstrated to their Internationally dispersed members & employees during their recent World Conference.

The "End Game", or at least the beginning of the "End Game" as regards the "digital unification" programme for Motor Sport Magazine has been to migrate the pre-existing content from Wordpress to the new Drupal installation.

The latest feature in the on-going “unification” programme for the Motor Sport magazine website(s) is the restyling of their mammoth archive resource – every issue of the magazine going back to it’s inception in the 1920s lovingly scanned, OCR’d and annotated is now delivered in the fully-responsive and beautiful new template we designed for their Database in August 2015.

RSM had been a valued client of ours since 2013. When in 2015 they began their global roll-out of their new corporate brand, and we were delighted and honoured to be brought into the process right from the very beginning.

Some projects, especially where measurable & quantifiable ROIs are key, require an extended “Discovery Phase” during which existing analytics and user journeys can be poured over and strategies extrapolated, and this is especially true of any project specifically involving “Conversion Optimisation”.

Every now and then a job comes our way that very quickly becomes a “labour of love” for us. The Motor Sport Magazine database is one such project and we are just delighted with the work and our new client.

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What singles this particular project out as a deeply satisfactory Squarespace instance is that - for once - absolutely no code injection or css overrides were required; this site is absolutely standard in terms of code and template presets, and this reflected in the fact that it was delivered for less than half of the original estimated cost.